Tickle Liposuction- Why is it Called ‘Tickle’ Lipo

Tickle Liposuction is an office-based procedure that has actually been around for about good 12 to 14 years in Europe, came to States about 4 years ago. What distinguishes Tickle from any other form of liposuction in the marketplace is really its gentleness.

It does not heat or burn tissues like lasers or what is called a Vaser which is ultrasound-based liposuction. It does not us cutting instruments that chop through and cut like traditional liposuction or something called power-assisted liposuction.

Tickle Lipo uses vibration and rotation with dull, non-sharpened instruments if you will. So on the numbing side, we’re taking a little small tube, 2 1/2mm in diameter and, actually, with a blunt end and just going gently weaving through the tissues and we’re spraying anesthetic fluid into the tissues. So not only is it gently weaving through the tissues, the vibration helps to further minimize any discomfort.

After we’ve numbed the tissues thoroughly that we need to numb, then we go through with a maybe a 3mm instrument, nothing bigger, install the blunt end, little side holes, but now we’ll just increase the vibration and rotation rate. And what that does is helps liquefy the fat and break it down so we can easily just suction out.

So the nice thing about this is we’re not heating and burning. We’re not cutting and chunking. We’re just simply liquefying and removing. What that also means is the support structures that hold skin tugged down to muscle, they’re left pretty much intact. They’re not burned. They’re not cut. So when you would evacuate that fat, you’re body actually wants to take away that are of loss because it doesn’t want any Swiss cheese open hole effect in our body. So it will actually just pull down on the skin and we have a secondary skin tightening because of Tickle Lipo.

One other thing is really — a few other things. Because of the fact that this instrument is vibrating and rotating, this vibration and rotation actually what’s called a Gating mechanism. By Gating mechanism , what I mean is it tells the brain that you’re really not feeling any discomfort or it minimizes the discomfort. So it is a further enhancement of the whole anesthesia process.

Also because of that, I can use still very much adequate amount of anesthesia but less than I would if I was doing another type of instrument where it is very traumatic or burny. And therefore, I can feel the tissues more easily during the procedure. I can feel the texture of the tissues, the thickness of the tissues, and the symmetry of the tissues. So I know my endpoints, I know my end result, and I know what kind of results I’m going to get because of all that. It truly distinguishes Tickle from anything else in the marketplace.

If you’ve ever been through a procedure and somebody is wheeling you on a gurney into a pre-upholding area which is already cold and sterile, now into the operating room where it is even more cold, more sterile. And it is cold temperature because they like to keep operating rooms cold. It is sterile because everything is just has to be sterile for the procedure. It is not a warm inviting environment.

Versus, imagine just walking into the office, walk in procedure room, putting your garment on, laying down on a nice heated padded table, having music playing and just having people talk to you as we properly prepare you for the local anesthesia only. It is much more soothing. We’re talking to them. We’re joking around with them, they’re playing their own music so they are relaxed. And that’s part of the deal of proper preparation before the procedure.

If you go to a hospital, not only you have a surgeon’s costs, you have an anesthesiologist costs, you have the operating room costs, you have the recovery room costs, you have medication costs. So they all add up and they could be relatively significant amount of money that you’re spending. But unfortunately, a lot of times you’ll go see a doctor who is going to do it as an operating room procedure, they’ll quote you their cost but leave off the fact that there are other hidden cost that you’re not going to know that you’re incurring until you have the procedure. As opposed to the office-based setting, typically most of us is just one cost – it is the cost of the procedure. Anesthesia is included. Obviously the procedure room is included. So you’re getting everything condensed into one cost and more often than not, it is a significant savings by having an office-based setting than a surgical setting. Let alone, theoretically, if you’re having it done in a general anesthesia, you’re going to have a more traumatic procedure done therefore potentially more downtime, more time off from work so loss of income on the back-end as well.